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please watch my favorite game changer clip ever

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There are truly very few forces in the world as strong as the inertia of staying up way too late doing fuckall

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Babysitter AU where a Corduroy works for the Northwests but this ends up way better than the last time

One way or another this anemic emotionally fragile blonde child WILL be adopted into this lumberjack family

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guess who just found out the difference between wax paper and parchment paper the hard way

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Also in my experience TAs and professors are pretty understanding if you show up, eyes bloodshot from staying up all night working, voice hoarse from disuse, and you say "sorry, I haven't been well lately, here's my work, it's not my best but it's done" and they may even give you a one-day extension or something, if you look extra crappy.

chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

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Say it by the crane wives and Desert Duo in my brain like Do I have to learn animation now??? To animate Desert Duo through the seasons???? With their ups and many downs????? And then at the end of the song it's Wild Life?????? And the animatic ends with them smiling at each other earnestly again??????? Not out of the desert but over that pain????????

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Feather and Crystal (I remember)

Set after wild life session 5, under the premise that dd gave each other a feather earring and a crystal necklace back in 3rd life <3 They can be seen in a lot of my past pieces, the og concept was from bugs buggsxp back during dl !!

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Have you?

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// WILD LIFE EP 5 SPOILERS

IM BACK IN THE BUILDING AGAIN

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The final portion of the Journey Thus Far series of banner headers I drew for our Scarian zombie au fic, There Are Monsters Nearby!

I had so much fun drawing these each and every week, especially the last arc of the fic, when Scarian joined up with the rest of the Lifers at the Redwood compound. I love TAMN so much :')

Also here's the fic-only bonus banner we included at the end of the epilogue <3

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So, desert duo enjoyers, is anyone going to post the Wild Life Scarian Healing fic I so crave after seeing the finales or do I have to do it myself with my zero ability to consistently work on something once I start it? Because by jove, I *will* if I have to.

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I once accused someone of using A.I. to create their product photography because he said his photo was his "first try" at the genre. And I was like, "That's impossible. It takes at least a year of training to learn the concepts to this level." And then he showed me all of his RAW photos and I felt really stupid at the time. I apologized profusely and felt super guilty that I accused an artist of being unscrupulous without much evidence.

But then I saw him on another forum posting another photo and saying it was his "first try."

It was then I realized what was happening.

These dudes figured out you get a lot more likes and attention and praise if you say you hit a home run the first time you held a bat. I have since seen maybe a dozen "first try" submissions and now they just make me roll my eyes.

This one is fun because he didn't want to make it too unbelievable so he dialed it back to "second try."

I would say this is mostly harmless, but I do think it can be discouraging to the people who have been trying to learn this for months or even years and have not come close to this level.

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Sometimes I really hate the way people act when people want to express a difficulty when they have a privilege.

I am white. I make no secret of this.

I am also autistic. I also make no secret of this.

I once posted in an autistic group on FB about how, I live in a small UK town with a very small POC population, and how I rarely go outside, so I pick up most of my new vocabulary from online memes, so when it comes out that that vocabulary is AAVE and Black People are asking White People not to say it, I have a bit of a tough time because my communication is built on scripts and patterns and once something has become an accepted part of my script, removing it is a hard thing.

I made it clear that I DO stop. That I put the work in to break those scripts and stop doing something that I've been asked to stop doing because it's harmful, I made no excuses, and made it clear that I wasn't looking for people to say "Oh it's okay, you can because you're autistic!" Or mollify me.

I just wanted a space with other people that might understand the struggle I was having to vent and release because it IS a difficult task for me.

And again, I repeated at least 3 times in the post that I wasn't looking for absolution, praise for trying, or permission to say things that I have no right to say.

(I would also like to note that this was ALL about slang (ala 'on fleek') and not at all about Slurs. I am very lucky that I have never picked up slurs in my speech, I've just picked up a lot of slang that was not immediately 'advertised' as AAVE online)

The FIRST COMMENT was from a moderator, saying 'While it's hard for you, remember it's harder for POC who have to moderate what they say all the time and don't have the privilege of having time to learn.'

And just like that, I felt shamed. I felt ashamed for struggling with this thing, despite approaching this group MADE FOR AUTISTIC PEOPLE to get off my chest that I struggle with something that NT people would shame me for.

I felt ashamed for struggling with something because of my disability, because "Other people have it harder."

And I still feel ashamed. Every time I pick up a new piece of slang, there's this intense grip of panic and shame, because what if it's not FOR me to use? And if it comes out it's not in a few weeks/months, I don't get to complain that I'm struggling because other people have it harder, I'm privileged so I should just suck it up and ignore that my disability is making my life difficult.

I would never DREAM of seeing a fellow disabled person complaining about how difficult they were finding a waiting list for something they required and bring up that it's more difficult for Trans people because in the UK our waiting list is 5+ years minimum for a first appointment and another 1 year minimum after that first appointment to get any sort of treatment. Because that's not what the conversation is about, and all it will do is make them feel shit about struggling with their waiting list.

The oppression Olympics "Well this group has it worse!" When someone is expressing a struggle/disappointment IS NOT HELPFUL!

Shaming people because "Well this group has it worse!" IS NOT HELPFUL!

Unless someone is claiming that they are the group that has it the absolute worst, there is NO NEED TO SAY THAT YOUR GROUP HAS IT WORSE ON A VENT POST!

Everyone, E V E R Y O N E, from a skinny CisHet NT abled white man to the most underprivileged person you can possibly think of has things they struggle with and as long as they're doing it in the right forum (their blog, a vent room in a discord server, a group for people with their disability to discuss the way it makes their life difficult, their Twitter, their private diary), they should be met with support and care as long as their vent is not actively harming people. Not shaming.

Stop with the bloody oppression Olympics.

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